The boat 'Rum Runner'

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2011/07/22/boat-from-paul-newma n-movie-sails-through-lift-lock

Boat from Paul Newman movie sails through Lift Lock ... By Clifford Skarstedt, Peterborough Examiner ... Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:12:40 EDT AM ... Boaters Ian and Ngaire Carline of New Zealand passed their boat Nan through the Peterborough Lift Lock on Friday, the 99th lock that they have gone through since starting a voyage in Maine heading towards Georgian Bay.

It's the couple's first trip to Canada.

Their boat was used in the movie Absence of Malice filmed in 1981 starring Paul Newman and Sally Field. The boat, which measures 45 feet in length, was painted black and named the Rum Runner as Newman's character's boat in the movie

Ngaire & Ian Carline ... Ngaire & Ian are piloting a 1937 Cape Cod Picnic Boat "Nan" through the Erie Canal in upstate NY . The Boat is berthed in Long Island, NY and this couple is from New Zealand. They are on vacation (holiday) through the canal system and the Great Lakes.

This setting and dated snap shot style was chosen to place the Carline's in the approx. location and time period that Paul Newman and Sally Field sat in the 1981 movie "Absence of Malice" where this craft shared a roll.

I spent a fair amount of time with this very friendly and informative couple, listening to their stories of travel, and the history of the boat.

Ian and Ngaire are the owners of Silberhorn, www.silberhorn.co.nz. They have a DVD available called Vintage Canal & Waterways of Northeast America. It depicts previous travels of "Nan"
Portions of the DVD can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GBRdiMBjY

Ian and Ngaire were gracious enough to allow me to present them to the 100 Strangers Project.

This couple is #102 and 103 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the100 Strangers

Still sailing as of 2012. You'll probably find her somewhere between the St. Lawrence and the Erie Canal.